This was our house and here lay the window of our kitchen, where I was standing
I heard a bullet was fired and army was there, where right-now monkeys are sitting
Meanwhile my brother fell with a scream and I had to carry him back home
We then put him flat on floor and began the first aid
We bandaged his arms and we were not knowing he has been shot in the back
Meanwhile my father came and I told everyone to take him to the health center
our neighbours and villagers had come who later...
...wound him in a mattress and took him to the hospital through the fields
I came back and I saw that army was trying to barge into our house
Which house?
The one uphill, where we were then.
I stopped them and told them, 'Why are you coming in, to plant a weapon here!
So that you can say to the world he was a militant'. The I chased them...
...with an axe and they ran into the forests, they were six men only
My brother was moved away all this time
about which my father can add more
When you took your son from house, was he injured?
Yes, he was injured
What happened after that?
When we took him from here there was army everywhere
on this road
This army stopped us and asked, 'What happened? Did militants kill him?'
We told them militants didn't kill him, they were your army men
They were six army men who were in ambush near our house
...who fired at him
Army men tried to stop us there but we didn't stop
we took him to the Kupwara hospital
What happened there?
They put him(Fayaz Ahmed, Tailor) on ventilator for some time but then gave up
...instantly and said, 'we can't help it, take him to SKIMS hospital, Soura, Srinagar.'
and in the Hospital Cab we left for Srinagar
When we were midway at Singpora, Patan my son breathed his last!
When we reached Soura doctors confirmed he had died
He was no Militant or dacoit, he was no crook, he was a responsible citizen
Did police ever investigate in this?
Police never investigated in this, SSP Uttam Singh did say, 'We...
...will investigate into this'. They wasted our two, three years
saying this, but never did anything in actuality
When the army men of 18 RR killed my son they started terrorizing us afterwards
How did they terrorize you?
They would come day and night and beat the villagers
They get accolades for it, promotions and hike in salaries and what not
They kill common men and stage them as terrorists
That's the reason you left this place?
That's the reason we left this place and made another house on 5 Kanals of land I had.
In court inquiry they made us identify those six army men without uniform
If they didn't fire why did they came in front
They came in front because they were the culprits
Then Naresh Sood(Commanding Officer) told me, 'I am sorry for this
your son was innocent.'
He said, 'I am sorry, we were mistaken.'